Blockade Leningrad. At the country house of the Resurrection, living"in a specific scenario," six people and a chicken gather, who no you can cook. Before, the cook was engaged in this, nevertheless the Voskresenskys were taken away out of her eve - hard times came around the outside, and the circumstance is also difficult indoors: the youngest son brought a hungry girl, the eldest daughter of the unknown man for whom she will wed. There aren't many minutes left, and the variety of issues develops snowball.